The National Climatic Data Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported that the average temperature was 62.56 degrees Fahrenheit, 1.06 degrees above the 20th-century average. The ocean surfaces also reached that temperature in July 2009. It’s the third straight month this year that ocean surface temperatures set a record.

The NOAA reported:

Much warmer than average and record warm temperatures were prevalent in every major ocean basin, particularly notable across parts of the Arctic Seas between Greenland and northern Europe, the southern Indian Ocean, and the western equatorial Pacific Ocean. Neither El Niño nor La Niña conditions were present across the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean during July 2014. Temperature departures from average in this region, a major indicator of the conditions, cooled slightly compared with the previous month.

Other July statistics from the NOAA:

The combined average temperature over global land and ocean surfaces for July 2014 was the fourth highest on record for July, at 1.15°F above the 20th-century average of 60.4°F.

The global land surface temperature was 1.33°F above the 20th-century average of 57.8°F, marking the 10th warmest July on record.

The combined global land and ocean average surface temperature for the January–July period (year-to-date) was 1.19°F above the 20th-century average of 56.9°F, tying with 2002 as the third warmest such period on record.

(NaturalNews) As global warming and climate change alarmists burn tons
of fossil fuel jetting around the world, lecturing people about how
burning tons of fossil fuel is destroying our planet, federal government
agencies and learned academic institutions are quietly revising
previously published data to reflect “an inconvenient truth” — that,
contrary to their earlier claims, the earth is actually getting cooler,
and weather is actually getting milder.

One of the most recent examples of this fraud was reported by The Daily Caller:
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has been criticized
for manipulating temperature records to give the illusion of a warming
trend. Since then, the agency has been caught changing temperature data
from both the past and present.

Here’s the story. A couple of
years ago, NASA scientists and climatologists declared July 2012 to be
the hottest month in a report titled, “Too Hot to Handle?” [See it here:http://science.nasa.gov.
During the summer months of that year, the country experienced
widespread drought and wildfires burned more than 1.3 million acres of
land, according to NASA statistics and data.

Now, according to
NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in 2012, the “average temperature
for the contiguous U.S. during July was 77.6°F, 3.3°F above the 20th
century average, marking the warmest July and all-time warmest month on
record for the nation in a period of record that dates back to 1895.” [You can see that assessment here: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov

‘You can’t get any clearer proof’ of fraud

Truth Teller

Watts is the biggest liar there is on global warming. He posts propaganda as truth, just so he can “stir the pot” and makes issues out of non-issues. This incident that he is speaking of, happens all the time with scientists, having to recalibrate certain numbers is not unusual; nor is it at all “nefarious” as he would have us believe. How can you trust a person who refuses to give his backers names. He has fossil fuels written all over his face.

socalpa

Yeah ,, kind of like the blog run by an ex cartoonist climate change advocate John Cook, you know, the joke called “skepticalscience” that is not skeptical at all of century out weather/climate forecasts . ho ! Ho ! Ho !

igneous11

Watts really is a scientifically illiterate dummy. Don’t follow a rogue dummy. Seriously, the guy is to science approximately what the tinfoil hat crowd is.

Kevin Schmidt

Mike Adams is not a climate scientist, but he is a far right nut case who sees conspiracies around every corner.

If there actually was a case of fraud, don’t you think climate scientist, and scientists in general would have condemned it by now?

Perhaps you don’t understand the legitimate and scientific reasons for the adjustments. Let me put it in layman’s terms, they got better data, so they corrected their incorrect data.

Nicko Thime

It declared one MONTH, July, in 1936 to be the warmest, not the whole year. You are telling lies for your ideology because ideology requires such lies.

“All of the top 10 warmest years on record have occurred since 1998. The warmest year on record was 2010, NOAA reported.”
Stop being an ignorant f**kstick when it comes to climate change.

DaveMurphy4561

Watts wrote: “Two years ago during the scorching summer of 2012,
July 1936 lost its place on the leaderboard and July 2012 became the
hottest month on record in the United States. Now, as if by magic, and
according to NOAA’s own data, July 1936 is now the hottest month on
record again. The past, present, and future all seems to be ‘adjustable’
in NOAA’s world.” [See his blog post here: http://wattsupwiththat.com

Watts
had used data from NOAA’s “Climate at a Glance” plots from 2012, a
graphic showing that July 2012 was the hottest month on record at
77.6°F. July 1936 — which was during the infamous Dust Bowl years — is
listed at only 77.4°F.

He ran the same data plot again on June
29 and discovered that NOAA inserted a new number in for July 1936; the
average temperature for July 1936 was made slightly higher than July
2012, meaning, again, that July 1936 is the hottest year on record.

“You
can’t get any clearer proof of NOAA adjusting past temperatures,” Watts
wrote. “This isn’t just some issue with gridding, or anomalies, or
method, it is about NOAA not being able to present historical climate
information of the United States accurately.”

He went on to note
that in “one report they give one number, and in another they give a
different one with no explanation to the public as to why.

“This is not acceptable. It is not being honest with the public. It is not scientific. It violates the Data Quality Act.”

U.S. ‘cooling since the Thirties’

Watts’ assessment of the NOAA data manipulation
came on the heels of earlier reports stating that the federal agency
was lowering past temps to create the illusion of a warming trend in the
U.S. that did not coincide with the raw data.

Tom Terrific

Please,go suck a tailpipe!

Kevin Schmidt

Watts is not a climate scientist, but he is funded by the fossil fuel industry.

tmalthus2010

You challenged their cult religion with inconvenient truth.

Nicko Thime

HE spilled trash on stuff and made a mess.
He’s an ignorant f**kstick when it comes to climate change.

Steve Daily

So the average temperature of the entire ocean is the number they’re using? That’s like saying the average tree coverage of a mountain range. It’s irrelevant data.

Jaget santos

What is surface temps? Its land + oceans surface temperatures. Oceans cover >70% of the area.
Not that smart are you?

Kevin Schmidt

Obviously you never took a course in statistics, or passed third grade math. Better look up the definition of “average.”

markopar

Climate Change Doomed the Ancients

By ERIC H. CLINEMAY 27, 2014

THIS month, a report issued by a prominent military advisory board concluded that climate change posed a serious threat to America’s national security.

But Senator James M. Inhofe of Oklahoma, the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee and a stalwart believer that global warming is a “hoax,” dismissed the report as a publicity stunt.

Perhaps the senator needs a history lesson, because climate change has been leading to global conflict — and even the collapse of civilizations — for more than 3,000 years. Drought and famine led to internal rebellions in some societies and the sacking of others, as people fleeing hardship at home became conquerors abroad.

One of the most vivid examples comes from around 1200 B.C. A centuries-long drought in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean regions, contributed to — if not caused — widespread famine, unrest and ultimately the destruction of many once prosperous cities, according to four recent studies.

The scientists determined the length and severity of the drought by examining ancient pollen as well as oxygen and carbon isotope data drawn from alluvial and mineral deposits. All of their conclusions are corroborated by correspondence, inscribed and fired on clay tablets, dating from that time.

Ancient letters from the Hittite kingdom, in what is now modern-day Turkey, beseech neighboring powers for shipments of grain to stave off famine caused by the drought. (The drought is thought to have affected much of what is now Greece, Israel, Lebanon and Syria for up to 300 years.) One letter, sent from a Hittite king, pleads for help: “It is a matter of life or death!”

Another letter, sent from the city of Emar, in what is now inland Syria, states simply, “If you do not quickly arrive here, we ourselves will die of hunger.” The kingdom of Egypt, as well as the city of Ugarit, on the coast of what is now Syria, responded with food and supplies, but it is not clear if they were able to provide enough relief.

It certainly created problems of national security for the great powers of the time. Correspondence between the Egyptians, Hittites, Canaanites, Cypriots, Minoans, Mycenaeans, Assyrians and Babylonians — effectively, the Group of 8 of the Late Bronze Age — includes warnings of attacks from enemy ships in the Mediterranean. The marauders are thought to have been the Sea Peoples, possibly from the western Mediterranean, who were probably fleeing their island homes because of the drought and famine and were moving across the Mediterranean as both refugees and conquerors.

One letter sent to Ugarit advised the king to “be on the lookout for the enemy and make yourself very strong!” The warning probably came too late, for another letter dating from the same time states: “When your messenger arrived, the army was humiliated and the city was sacked. Our food in the threshing floors was burned and the vineyards were also destroyed. Our city is sacked. May you know it! May you know it!”

While sea levels may not have been rising then, as they are now, changes in the water temperature may have been to blame for making life virtually unlivable in parts of the region.

A 2012 study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science found that the surface temperatures of the Mediterranean Sea cooled rapidly during this time, severely reducing precipitation over the coasts. The study concluded that agriculture would have suffered and that the conditions might have influenced the “population declines, urban abandonments and long-distance migrations associated with the period.”

To top it off, catastrophic events, in the form of a series of earthquakes, also rocked many ancient cities in these areas from around 1225 to 1175 B.C. These, together with the famines and droughts, would have further undermined the societies of the time, most likely leading to internal rebellions by the underclass and peasant populations who were facing severe food shortages, as well as invasions by migrating peoples.

We still do not know the specific details of the collapse at the end of the Late Bronze Age or how the cascade of events came to change society so drastically. But it is clear that climate change was one of the primary drivers, or stressors, leading to the societal breakdown.

The era that followed is known as the first Dark Ages, during which the thriving economy and cultures of the late second millennium B.C. suddenly ceased to exist. It took decades, and even hundreds of years in some areas, for the people in these regions to rebuild.

We live in a world that has more similarities to that of the Late Bronze Age than one might suspect, including, as the British archaeologist Susan Sherratt has put it, an “increasingly homogeneous yet uncontrollable global economy and culture” in which “political uncertainties on one side of the world can drastically affect the economies of regions thousands of miles away.”

But there is one important difference. The Late Bronze Age civilizations collapsed at the hands of Mother Nature. It remains to be seen if we will cause the collapse of our own.

Eric H. Cline, a professor of classics and anthropology at George Washington University, is the author of “1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed.”

So another words the climate has been changing,,, seance the beginning of our existence.

Nicko Thime

I see that the ignorant f**ksticks are already here being ignorant f**ksticks concerning climate change.

tmalthus2010

Is that a confession?

Nicko Thime

You arrived on demand. Can’t get service like that everywhere.
That’s some of that quality ignorant f**kstickery.

Thomas_Blaney

So what? Oklahoma is having one of the coolest summers ever. How is James Inhofe supposed to take global warming seriously?

Kevin Schmidt

That was cause by the polar vortex, which was caused by AGW Climate Change.

Thomas_Blaney

Tell that to Inhofe.

Kevin Schmidt

That’s not my job. I don’t live in OK.
It’s his job to at least understand that AGW Climate Change is proven and verified by almost 100% of all climate scientists, who are backed by every major scientific organization and academy on the planet.

Thomas_Blaney

Willfull ignorance pretty much defines Oklahoma. The Wing-Nut set to replace Tom Coburn, funded almost entirely with fossil fuel contributions, has only one term in the House voting to repeal Obamacare every time. Before that, his only experience was as the director of the biggest Baptist Bible camp in the universe.

tmalthus2010

Next year will be even hotter. They already have the “data.” Funny how that works when they make it all up.